Show I t f ril Farm Accident Costs Continue to Mount Most Losses Can Be I Prevented Entirely I Accidents to 10 farmers In n fI typical year yen 1 lost last double the amount of ot time lime needed to product produce the average an tut- annual nt nual meal wheat crop of ot the United Unlit States Stales The economic loss from nc nc- of all kinds occurring to 10 farm people Is nearly a billion dol deb dollars lars per ICI year Ip a n typical year yean farm fann people were killed were killed at agricultural work rural residents were in In- Of ot the 1700 accidental deaths among farm farl people nearly half were wore the result of or accidents similar to La those In urban Ulban homes hOI due to falls fA burns poi ons firearms rills and ond lint drowning I The greatest number of at fatal dents to farm workers occurred I urr i it 1 qi 1 I t 1 1 a f v I t. t 4 0 r. r i Dont Don't adjust moving belts I while oiling unclogging or adjusting moving farm turn machinery Some I farmers were killed when tractors tipped over but next to machinery ma- ma maI chinery I the commonest acci acci- accidents accidents accidents dents were caused by livestock livestock livestock-by by byi the startled horse or tho the bull hull that i everyone thought was tame Motor vehicle accidents not asso asso- associated associated elated with farm work took look the lives of rural people I The week commencing July 22 I has been designated by uy President Truman as liS National Farm Safety week |